Troubles with SPR: Day Outing
Masako giggled in the back of her kimono sleeve as Mai, Ayako and Madoka were prancing and twirling behind her.
Although the employer, Lin, Bou-san, John and Yasuhara's side was not so happy as they were trailing behind the tittering girls.
"Why did you have to drag us along?!" Bou-san whined, flailing his arms about as if he was a mindless imbecile.
Madoka glanced at him as she did a twirl. "It's because you men have muscles and we ladies don't!" She smiled cheerfully.
Bou-san heaved a sigh of despair as he trudged behind the rest of the men.
"Bou-san, make sure you hold more bags than me." Yasuhara gloomily looked at him.
Bou-san's brow twitched as he looked back at him. "Why are you not excited like the girls are?!" he hollered out as he took hold of Yasuhara's shoulders and shaking them as he let himself go limp.
Yasuhara let out a loose grin. "You want me to?"
"No, but why do girls like going on a day outing?!" Bou-san shouted out to the whole world.
Nearly everyone on the public street stared at him as though he was insane.
"Don't worry, Bou-san. We won't buy as much as you think." Mai smiled and lowered her voice down to a whisper. "Just kidding."
The girls giggled mischievously.
All the men groaned dejectedly excluding Naru and Lin (Just a tiny bit).
"Wah!" Mai's chocolate-brown orbs twinkled happily as she saw the amount of lovely clothes dangling on the clothes rack.
Apparently every colleague—especially the men—were in a girl's clothing shop.
"Pick how many clothes you want, the men will pay!" Ayako grinned.
Now that was not intended.
All the men in SPR froze—especially Bou-san who gaped.
"What?!" Bou-san yelled out and every shopper inside stared at him.
"Hn." Naru looked away.
"Ugh." Lin made an irritated noise as he glanced at the content Madoka who was happily picking out an enormous collection of clothes.
John and Yasuhara groaned in a more despondent way.
"Masako, Masako!" Mai called the young medium over.
"Yes?" Masako walked over to her.
The brunette showed her a collection of kimonos on a cute clothes rack.
Masako's gray orbs glimmered and she abruptly began searching through the rack.
Mai grinned smugly as she marched towards the cashier.
"Eh?" Madoka looked over to the young brunette. "You're paying already?"
Mai nodded and placed a few clothes onto the counter. "I don't really need any clothes since I have quite a lot at home." She smiled.
"B-but the men are paying!" Ayako said as she yanked a red blouse down from a clothes hanger.
"Hm." Mai seemed to be thinking. "It's all right."
All the girls heaved out a sigh of disbelief.
However, the men smirked as though they were happy they didn't need to pay much for the young brunette.
As the three girls continued to pick out more clothes, Mai took her wallet out and paid the cost of her new clothes.
But Ayako caught her.
"Mai! What are you doing, paying?!" she chided her as if she done something wrong.
Mai blinked. "If I choose what I want, I pay it," she said, grabbing her bags.
Ayako groaned and softly smacked her own forehead. "The. Men. Are. Pay. Ing," she carefully said each word in each syllable.
"I know that." Mai continued to stare at her. Although the men were staring at her instead.
"Hey, hey," Yasuhara began whispering to the rest of the men. "Do you think Mai became too familiar of paying her own items because she's been an orphan for half of her life?"
Naru furrowed his brows when sorrow sparked through his eyes as it vanished before a second.
"She doesn't rely on anyone except herself," John said.
"Hn." Lin took hold of the back of his neck. "Good points."
"My jou-chan!" Bou-san cried out, having the urge to hug the brunette as she walked towards them.
As she stood before them, she smiled. "Now we just need to wait!"
"Mai!" Bou-san grabbed the brunette and gently cradled her in his arms.
"Eh?" She made a surprised noise. "What are you doing, Bou-san?"
The girl heard a muffled reply from him, however, she couldn't hear it. Although she didn't mind as she enjoyed the soft hug Bou-san gave her.
But then the employer did not—at the very least—look happy. He glared death holes at the back of Bou-san's head and Lin caught it which he stifled a chuckle.
"Let me hug Mai-chan as well, Bou-san!" Yasuhara tackled the brunette, too.
"Mmf!" Mai could barely breathe as she was being crushed nearly to death by the two men.
"I advise you to release her before she runs out of any more air." Naru proceeded to icily glare at them, his furrowed brows giving him the additional look of hostility.
Bou-san and Yasuhara freed the said girl, and she took hurried deep breaths as though she was hyperventilating.
Bou-san grinned. "Look who's jealous," he said and secretly pointed at the employer. However, Naru heeded the finger Bou-san was pointing at him.
"It is part of my job to assist my assistant whenever she is in an unsafe position," Naru stated and folded his arms across his chest.
"He's jealous." Bou-san and Yasuhara nodded simultaneously and grinned.
The employer ignored them.
After forty-five minutes or so, the girls finally went to the cashier.
"In total would be 64,000 yen(A/N: Sorry if it's a high number, I don't know anything about yen!)," said the smiling clerk.
"Lin!" Madoka called out. Her significant other sighed and walked up, remembering to pull his wallet out of his pocket. "Just pay half the price. I'll tell the other boys to pay the rest." She grinned.
Lin drooped his head and paid half the cost while Madoka dragged Bou-san by the ear with Naru, Yasuhara and John behind towards the cashier.
Since the cashier was a lady, she abruptly eyed all of the men and immediately became fond of them.
"All right, boys. Just pay up!" Madoka said and walked to the front entrance, also hearing the deep dejected sigh from the men.
As the clerk lady received the yen from the guys, she began replacing her hand with change while glancing at them once every three seconds or so. Finally at last, she decided to create a conversation with them.
"Hello, fellow men. Are those your girlfriends?" She smiled a bit too sweetly.
Naru and the rest of the guys looked at each other as though they didn't know.
"Some are, some aren't." They all said in unison.
"Oh." Her smiled lessened slightly as if she was depressed.
". .Yeah." Bou-san nervously scratched the back of his head.
"As I can see, Madoka and Lin are the only ones who are together." Ayako inspected her nails beside the men.
Bou-san's brow twitched. "Excuse me, old lady. But I could see some flirting happening between a few of our colleagues!" he retorted.
Ayako laughed under her breath. "Now that's obvious." And she walked away.
The cashier was staring at the other men for an explanation.
"Er. . They're like that." John nervously chuckled.
"Oh. ." The lady nodded and proceeded to hand them the change.
"Thanks, but where's the receipt?" Yasuhara curiously looked at her.
"It's coming out." She smiled and waited for the receipt.
"Where shall we go now?" Madoka twirled once again.
Mai took out a scroll of map. "How about here?" She pointed on a red circled spot.
"What's that?" Masako asked with her kimono sleeve in front of her lips.
"That's. ." Mai flipped it around as though she had no idea. "Erm. ."
"A coffee café."
The girls heard from behind. They turned around and found Lin slightly smiling.
"Oh." Mai scratched the back of her head, embarrassed. Even her cheeks gave it away as they fired up in rouge.
The group continued to walk around the city, hopping into women and men shops and eating in cafés.
It was already nine at night and all of them were exhausted as they sat on a bench in the park—a few lying on the cold grass—gazing at the stars that twinkled in the night sky.
"This was a fantastic day!" Madoka yelled out and stretched her limbs as she lied down onto the grass with Lin seated beside her.
"Even the men bought a few clothes." Ayako winked at them, seating herself onto the bench as if she didn't want to get her clothes all filthy from lying on the grass.
"That's because you insisted us to do so," Yasuhara replied. He was sat on a tree.
"You brat!" Ayako launched out of the bench and attempted to climb the tree.
Mai giggled as she walked closer to the lake that was in front of the tree.
The moon up above the sky was reflected by the water, giving the water a glowing look. With the stars giving an extra effect to the water, it looked further enchanting.
The brunette sighed as she mildly touched the frigid water.
"Mai."
Mai heard a soft female voice. She turned around and saw Masako.
"Yes?"
Masako sighed and crouched beside her. She, too, touched the water and looked up at the night sky. The breeze gave her a pleasant look as it blew her black hair gently to the side. "It's nothing."
She smiled.
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I apologize if I had not been updating/posting any chapters/oneshots up lately. As you probably could tell, I never post/write them from Mondays to Fridays. Obviously because those are school days and I don't have any time. Oh right. My mother (or at least eye doctor) had told me to not spend much time on the computer, so that's cut off as well. Erm. . I think that's all you need to know. After all, I'll try to post five oneshots on Saturdays/Sundays. We'll see how it goes though.
Next time on Troubles with SPR: Cooking Attempts. Oh boy, SPR is cooking in Masako's manor! How will it work out?
